{"id":225586,"date":"2012-11-20T18:10:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T00:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=225586"},"modified":"2012-11-21T16:45:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T22:45:57","slug":"hughes-talks-about-run-for-house-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=225586","title":{"rendered":"Hughes Talks about Run for House Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=225587\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-225587\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/11\/vlcsnap_2012_11_20_17h12m51s158-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"vlcsnap_2012_11_20_17h12m51s158\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-225587\" \/><\/a>MINEOLA \u2014 Republican State Representative Bryan Hughes of Mineola continues his run for Speaker of the House, challenging incumbent Joe Straus. Hughes tells KETK he considers Straus a gentleman, has nothing against him personally, and is not running so he can \u201cram through\u201d his own agenda. He says he in fact hopes to de-centralize power, adding that he\u2019s \u201cproposed some specific changes to the rules that would take power out of the speaker\u2019s office and give it back to the members.\u201d The battle begins in earnest when the Legislature convenes in January<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINEOLA \u2014 Republican State Representative Bryan Hughes of Mineola continues his run for Speaker of the House, challenging incumbent Joe Straus. Hughes tells KETK he considers Straus a gentleman, has nothing against him personally, and is not running so he can \u201cram through\u201d his own agenda. He says he in fact hopes to de-centralize power, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=225586\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hughes Talks about Run for House Speaker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 08:56:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225586"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225820,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225586\/revisions\/225820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}